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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 10h

Whether you're a cautious AI adopter or trying to avoid AI artifacts, this newsletter is for you. I know academics are cautious because I am, too. And it's tough to stay hype-free! scholarintheloop.com

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Scholar in the Loop | Substack

Scholar in the Loop keeps you up to date on the latest news in AI and other technological advances in academia. Written by a human, Dr. Aure Schrock, for Indelible Voice (indeliblevoice.com). Click to...

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 12h

It's worth saying that this is not how it works, at least right now. When LLMs respond to medical questions, they are drawing on the work of experts, though not only that. What RFK is describing is a centrally-controlled info system, which certainly is possible but not something we have yet

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"We trained an AI on the history of US presidentialism and this is what it came up with..."

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... So Matt Levine had a newsletter yesterday where he suggested that AI labs could "publish papers about how important it is to slow down" to coordinate an effective cartel. I have a Modest Proposal that goes one better.

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AI Labs Want Someone to Stop Them

AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome.

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Me estimating a logit model: Currently what the program desires to do is to make the likelihood function as high as possible, but what if instead it wants to kill me? www.nytimes.com/video/podcas...

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Video: Ex-Anthropic Employee: Here’s Why A.I. Might Want to Kill Us

The A.I. researcher who quit Anthropic joins Natalie Kitroeff on “The Daily” to discuss why A.I. systems might eventually become “anti-human.”

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Folks you are going to want to get in on this, we are seeing quadratic growth in this field

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is the same indignation I feel when Texans try to open biotech firms

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"In a tally reminiscent of Pravda, we were informed the vote was 859 to 31. So much for diversity of thought." Wait this is so good

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.”

Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.”

Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It is actually maddening to have the "compete with China" administration in place when it doesn't want to compete with China on anything that actually matters

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

logged in, next steps pending

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Check it out! Lea is live and open to the public 🥳 Lea is an experiment to build better social media by researchers and for researchers, where we own our own data and can build our own feeds, events, and communities. This is still very much a proof-of-concept; we welcome ideas + collaborators!

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yeah I'm good at R basically I just reenter install.packages until it works or I die.

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The eyes of Jimmy Carter's corpse snap open. "The cycle is complete," it rasps. Its eyes close again. It is finally at rest.

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

There are people who point to the horror of the Trump policy on Gaza as proof that pro-Pal protesters didn't know how good they had it with Biden. But this article makes clear that it's only through the Biden admin's abject failure that Israel was able to run out the clock to Trump. To the hague!

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Thomas O’Mahony @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

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Andrew Martin @andrewmartin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

plot predicting messi-ronaldo preference

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

So from what I understand, the report says there is such a thing as objective truth, but it's impossible to prove it to these disciplines, so wise administrators who believe in objective truth must impose it on their departments. I'm not a philosopher so I don't know if this argument is good or bad.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Ignorant witches in science fiction have ruined us.

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

if u really think about it the median voter is just one guy

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We've found a wedge issue to split the republican party

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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Over the weekend the university president published a statement apologizing for the faculty commencement speaker's remarks. Every line of Derek Peterson's reply is worth a read:

"The idea that graduations should be apolitical is ridiculous. Michigan is not a finishing school for polite young men and women. Our students are not wilting flowers. They have just finished their degrees at the foremost public university in the country. They can handle controversy.

"They do not need sentimental, cloying nostalgia. They need encouragement to face a flawed and unjust world head on, using the tools we've given them: critical reasoning, careful research, sympathy for the oppressed.

"That is why I spoke as I did. If parents want sentimental graduation ceremonies, perhaps they should send their kids to a different institution. Here at UM we teach our students to face controversies, not run away from them. That's what being the leaders and the best is about."

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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"Our students are not wilting flowers. They can handle controversy. They do not need sentimental, cloying nostalgia. They need encouragement to face a flawed and unjust world head on, using the tools we've given them: critical reasoning, careful research, sympathy for the oppressed."

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University of Michigan professor defends pro-Palestinian commencement remarks: "Michigan is not a finishing school"

"The idea that graduations should be apolitical is ridiculous," University of Michigan history professor Derek Peterson said as a follow-up to his graduation day remarks.

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I do think we have a seriousness problem in the judiciary www.statesman.com/news/educati...

(Begin highlight one) “Students are neither catechized on the Commandments nor taught to adopt them,” (end highlight one) the judges wrote. “Nor are teachers commanded to proselytize students who ask about the displays or contradict students who disagree with them.”

In a dissenting opinion, Judge Leslie H. Southwick insisted that “S.B. 10 is facially unconstitutional under the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses.” Southwick was joined by judges Priscilla Richman, James E. Graves Jr., Stephen A. Higginson, Dana M. Douglas and Irma Carrillo Ramirez in the dissent.

Those who have supported SB 10 say the Ten Commandments are a historical document. Attorney General Ken Paxton called the appeals court’s ruling “a major victory for Texas and our moral values.”

“The Ten Commandments have had a profound impact on our nation, and (begin highlight two) it’s important that students learn from them every single day,” (end highlight two) he wrote in a post online Tuesday evening.

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Issac Chotiner: You say you "love dinosaurs" but, when asked, you identify your favorite dinosaur as T-Rex, the one dinosaur anyone over the age of 2 recognizes. Do I have that right? Me: No, Issac, listen,

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The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

With the heaviest of hearts, today we mourn the passing of Sudanese writer, thinker, and advocate Muzan Alneel. Muzan, who served in our 2021-2022 nonresident fellow cohort, leaves behind an incredible legacy of policy ideas and impact that consistently centered the Sudanese people.

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The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

بقلوب مثقلة بالحزن، ننعى اليوم رحيل الكاتبة والمفكرة والمناصرة السودانية مزن النيل. تترك مزن، التي زاملت معهد التحرير عام 2021-2022، إرثًا استثنائيًا من الرؤى والطروحات السياساتية التي طالما انتصرت لمصالح وطموحات الشعب السوداني.

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Now that I can take a breath again, let me give a little more introduction to my @liberalcurrents.com piece, out today. This piece takes the mostly self-proclaimed motto of the Trump administration, FAFO, and asks who FAs and who FOs 1/

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm out in Liberal Currents today on how we shouldn't let the Trump tactical blunders distract us from his strategic blunders!

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Proof that Iran is high up in the tech tree

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

UAE is calling this an opportunity for Trump to replicate their success in Yemen

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say the Russian Duma has a reformism problem

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Like you can look at successful interventions to construct an optimistic scenario. Iran (US) in 1953, Iraq (UK) in 1941, even Afghanistan in 1979. These bought max ~20 years of "stability" (from the outside perspective) before the blowback became apparent. 50 years is fantasy land

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 23/03/2026

when the programmer who worked on simcity actually implemented the city income calculation logic based on the design doc was he doing maxis taxes praxis

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Samus is Here @samusishere.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Donald J Trump the first president inspired by “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.”

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Following this account is like how Inspector Clousea has Cato attack him when he's least expecting it, but with Discourse.

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Alex Norris @acxn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I am begging people to not repost stuff that is a screenshot of a video in an undated tweet. It's good internet hygiene. (this is a real quote/video from aug. 2025, talking about Trump's security cooperation with NATO. The tweet is recent and is trying to represent the video as recent too)

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